Theatre News

An intense, transformative journey came to an end today, on Land Day, as this year’s Freedom Ride in occupied Palestine finished. The original plan was to spend the two last days of the Freedom Ride in Jerusalem. A symbolic and actual defiance of the enforced separation between Palestinians in the West Bank and in East Jerusalem. However, realities on the ... Read More »

The Freedom Theatre is happy to announce that we are bringing The Siege to Jerusalem! For the very first time, The Freedom Theatre will present a theatre play in Jerusalem, hosted by El Hakawati – The Palestinian National Theatre. Join us as we bring cultural resistance from Jenin to Jerusalem and break through the enforced separation between West Bank and ... Read More »

Mustafa Sheta, secretary of the Board of The Freedom Theatre, was taken from his home by Israeli soldiers in the early hours of (March 19). Mustafa, 35 years old and father of three children, is a researcher and a journalist who is well-known for his social and humanitarian activism. He works with the United Nations and is also studying for ... Read More »

In April 2015 The Freedom Theatre will premiere a brand new production across the West Bank and then embark on the theatre’s first ever tour of the UK. The Siege is drawn from the extraordinary accounts of a group of fighters who during the height of the second Intifada took refuge in the Church of the Nativity. As the Israeli army closed ... Read More »